No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUEROne should use common words to say uncommon things.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner, if I let it slip from my tongue, I am Its prisoner.
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
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A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.
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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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To be alone is the fate of all great minds – a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.
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If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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